Summer Challenge 2025
There is a new event from CodinGame.com that I want to participate in.
The event is called Bot Programming: Summer Challenge 2025
Every now and then, the platform CodinGame.com holds coding events, and these are usually fun. This time it is a bot programming challenge sponsored by CoderPad Play.
Right now there are 12,704 people registered for the contest. It will be held from July 17th to 28th. The event is open to everyone (anyone who has a free account on CodinGame.com) and it will consist of bot programming.
Based on previous experience with similar events, there will be different leagues that will be unlocked during these 12 days and you can reach the next league by beating default bots and/or bots programmed by other players.
There are usually 3 leaderboards: solo, company and school. I’m not working for a company right now so I can’t access the company leaderboard. Regarding the school one, I tried to convince some friends in the past, but no one wanted to create an account. This time it seems there could be a special prize for companies with at least 10 participants.
The bot we will have to program seems to be one or more entities that play a game with water and fire. As per the image it seems we will control a little flame that is a firefighter and has to extinguish the other team ¯(°_o)/¯
The link to the challenge is this one. And there are still 14 days left before the start.
I will use this post to update what happens.
30/06/2025
I received the email about the event.
02/07/2025
Published this post.
09/07/2025
8 days left. 13,327 people registered so far.
14/07/2025
3 days left. 14,213 people registered so far. Received a reminder email the other day.
16/07/2025
The event will start tomorrow afternoon. 14,624 people registered so far.
17/07/2025
The event has started. I already completed the Wood 4 league — I just had to get used to the interface and move the agents to a specific location. Right now, I’m in the Wood 3 league, ranked 340 out of 469. To complete this league, I just need to shoot. But first, I want to organize all the data.
22/07/2025
I’m in the Wood 1 league now, ranked 1,382 out of 3,253 globally. In Wood 4, I had to move. In Wood 3, I had to shoot. In Wood 2, I had to take cover and shoot at the enemy with less cover. And in this league, I have to use the splash bomb to take out a group of enemies. The Silver league is open — let’s see if I can reach it.
24/07/2025
Yesterday, the Gold league opened, and I also reached the Silver league. The Wood 1 league required more complex algorithms. I thought the 50 ms I had for each turn wouldn’t be enough, but it was. After that, I reached the Bronze league. I was surprised that my code — optimized just for finding groups of enemies and throwing a bomb — could do fairly well and get a good rank. My rank stayed between 5th and 8th in the Bronze league.
I made a few small improvements, like actually shooting, and that was enough to reach the Silver league.
I must say, this one seems more difficult. I’m now competing against real players, and many of them know what they’re doing. This won’t be as easy as the Bronze league. In fact, I’ve never reached a Gold league before, and I only have 3 days and a few hours to try.
Let’s set reaching the Gold league as my main goal for this event.
Currently, I’m ranked 928 out of 3,562 globally, and 675 out of 948 in the Silver league.
25/07/2025
Frustration. This is how I feel. I haven’t been able to work on this as much as I wanted due to family issues. And I probably won’t be able to reach the Gold league. There are only two days left and too little time to code. And it’s a pity, because I’m almost sure I could do it if I had enough time.
And now that I finally have some time to code, it seems there are issues with the platform — probably because too many people are running their code. When I try to run my code, I get a Network error.
Oh, and the Legend league opened today.
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